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What My 5 Things a Day Has Looked Like, Month 4 of Book Promotion

I’m testing what I’ve seen work for others with my new “Profitable Author” book, starting with this daily practice

10 min readMay 15, 2025
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To hold myself to my commitment (and my advice to all authors) to do 5 Things a Day, Every Day to promote my book, The Profitable Author: 1,001 Ways to Build a Business You Love Around Your Books, and to give you a sense of the ebb and flow of this practice, how it unfolds over time, and what counts as “a thing” to do, I’ll be documenting everything I do this year on behalf of this book and measuring reviews, book/author/business exposure, book sales, and business impact along the way.

Month 4

Below is my fourth month’s worth of 5 things a day, with some things I want to note first:

  1. Having finished 120 days of book marketing has not yet yielded a bounty of sales but it has made a notable difference in bringing me new business from unexpected sources in addition to what’s more common: word-of-mouth…

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Sharon Woodhouse
Sharon Woodhouse

Written by Sharon Woodhouse

Sharon Woodhouse is an author coach, publishing consultant, and project manager. She was an indie book publisher for 25 years. www.conspirecreative.com

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